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Remotely Open: Design Without Borders

2.
You’re good at what you do,
but things are just “ok”
!
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3.
You’re good at what you do, but things are just “ok” !
— You think clients and colleagues trust you
— You think users are happy
— You’re happy conformed with how much you make
— You hope that your resume/portfolio is good enough
to get you a better job or clients
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21.
What’s GitLab?
GitLab is an open source tool used by developers to
work collaboratively from idea to production.
It uniﬁes code repository management, project
management, code review, CI/CD, and monitoring into a
single UI.
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22.
GitLab is used by more than 100,000 organizations
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35.
“But people will steal
my ideas!”
Don’t be paranoid about your “competitive advantage.”
There are many more ideas than the doers that make
them come to life. Be the one that does them.
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38.
Designer maturity-o-meter 1
1. “Let me work and I’ll get back to you”
— We design and experiment with our process in secret.
2. “Check out these wireframes”
— We share speciﬁc steps and know that feedback will
steer us to a better solution.
3. “Let’s design it together, right now”
— We able to share our rationale with other people while
formulating ideas and iterating.
1
Ryan Singer, 2011; Mark Ukraine, 2017
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39.
“But not everyone knows
how to give feedback!”
You’ll get good feedback and bad feedback. Not every
comment is helpful or suggestion is acceptable.
Discuss when you should accept feedback. Sometimes
you need to teach people how to give helpful feedback.
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40.
“But haven’t you heard
about ‘design by committee’?!”
— Ok, you got me.
— But the truth is: that can happen to any project.
— It’s in your hands to control this.
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41.
“But doesn’t it
take more time?!”
— Short answer: Yes. Everything takes a little more time.
— Long answer: Yes. But you need to look at the big
picture. !
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42.
Big picture (aka beneﬁts) !
— It brings clarity to your work
— Clients, colleagues, and users feel included and valued
— Builds interest, community, and participation
— You get diverse feedback from a wider group of people
— More eyes means mistakes are caught early
— It holds you accountable
— You feel less pressured and more conﬁdent
— Other people learn from what you did right/wrong
— You’re seen as the expert
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51.
Just do it™ !
— Create a Dribbble account and post what you’re doing
— Promote Open Design in your company/team, explain
the beneﬁts
— Make room for your team to share the work
— Share your processes, tools, ﬁndings
— Tomorrow morning, think how you can make the
project you’re working on more open
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52.
If you can’t do any of this
There’s still a way
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